Mountain Silence

Resources on Meditation

Music and Meditation- Article by Sri Chinmoy on srichinmoy.org”Meditation and music cannot be separated. When we cry from the inmost recesses of our heart for peace, light and bliss, that is the best type of meditation. Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness. We cannot meditate twenty-four hours a day, but we can meditate, perhaps, for two hours a day. At other times we can play music or listen to music. When we play or hear soulful music, psychic music, immediately we are transported to a higher realm of consciousness. When we play music soulfully, we go high, higher, highest.”

Learn Meditation Online- (on nz.srichinmoycentre.org) Introduction to Meditation by Jogyata Dallas from Auckland, New Zealand, who has been giving meditation classes for 30 years. Includes writings on the benefit of meditation and the use of music in meditation”What a wonderful thing it is to learn meditation. With practice the mind becomes clear and peaceful, the heart is filled with an inner happiness, our life in every little part is coloured by the inner calm and joyfulness which meditation brings to the fore. Sitting in your favourite place you can learn to still the mind, discarding any distracting thoughts as you follow the breath within…”